OT: Re: communicator 4.6 - ftp bug
ed,
i fear, we could annoy some people if we continue to discuss a
non-debian-specific matter on a debian mailinglist. shouldn´t we go back
to pm?
Ed Cogburn wrote:
> A) I made up the MIMEtypes when I added those
> Preferences->Navigator->Applications entries, Hartmut. The
> important things are the suffix and which option you selected in
> the 'handled by' section.
i was confused by the fact, that peter and you had _exactly_ the same
MIMIEType for the gz case. there seemed to be a known source of that
types, which i was not aware of.
my own formely experiments couldn´t work, because i used ´.gz´ instead
of ´gz´. blush.
i´ve now finished my customization of communicator and done as follows
(all tested)
excerpt from ~.mime.types:
#mime types added by Netscape Helper
type=application/x-gzip-compressed \
desc="Gzip archive file" \
exts="z,gz"
#mime types added by Netscape Helper
type=application/x-compress \
desc="Compress archive file" \
exts="Z"
excerpt from Netscape.ad:
!*encodingFilters: \
! x-compress : : .Z : uncompress -c \n\
! compress : : .Z : uncompress -c \n
! x-gzip : : .z,.gz : gzip -cdq \n\
! gzip : : .z,.gz : gzip -cdq \n
and the link
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Netscape ->
/usr/lib/netscape/Netscape.ad
of course, if you´re using another netscape, eg. 4.07, then this link
probably would point to another directory.
> B) I'm glad you got it working for you Hartmut, but guess what, I
> don't need to comment out those lines in Netscape.ad, nor do I
> need the link to app-defaults/Netscape. In fact, I don't even
> *have* a .../app-defaults/netscape file! Nor does NS strip the
> suffix on me, as reported by someone else.
my experiments have shown, that in the absence of the mentioned link
netscape uses its own - probably compiled in - Netscape.ad.
therefore i would bet, that in one of your configuration files - xinit,
xressources et alia - is a reference to netscape, which causes such
behaviour.
i recommend a grep ´etscape´ over such files.
maybe also, that preferences.js is guilty.
>
> C) For everyone elses benifit: I'm using NS Communicator 4.6. My
> first version was 4.05. I had these reported problems then. In
> the process of trying to fix things, I added the
> Preferences->Navigator->Applications entries for files with *.gz
> and many other suffixes. At one point I was manually editing
^^
dangerous
> .mime.types because the entries I made were becoming corrupted for
> some reason. I never did get things working as I wanted, but now
> I can't remember the specifics, besides the corrupted .mime.types
> entries. When I upgraded to 4.5 the problems disappeared, and I
> never gave it any more thought. The upgrades preserved these
> entries I had made so they are still with me.
well, quite recently i had to play with different versions of the
communicator and wanted not to be disturbed by errors perhaps contained
in the recent version.
i´ve done this:
since i started with communicator 4.6, i created a directory ~/ns46 and
copied all netscape related directories and files of ~ to ~/ns46. then i
purged the old communicator, looked, if all files had gone - don´t
remember exactly if all was automatically deleted - and installed
communicator 4.61.
´twas no problem, to get back my bookmarks and the addressbook.
hafi
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